Architecture is literally Building with Geometry...
Here is a photograph contributed by my friend Jeff Chester,
a photographer, taken in Munich, Germany , summer 2010...
Jeff_Germany_Photo.jpg
Obviously we have a strong vertical composition in this photograph:
huge columns, many stairs, the enormous building facade,the huge historical lamp-post like a monument and the complementary
smaller street lamp-post, etc. And even the focus of our attention, the humanly alive female walking up the central staircase...
is a vertical bright softness of life and color, in this otherwise grey dormant weighty overbearing edifice from a bygone era...
And there is a trick in this photograph, (there is always a trick in a Jeff Chester photograph :-) to the observant viewer, upon care-full examination through the majestic columned portico to the building facade background:
which is not really a building, but rather a painted mural ("Trompe L'Oeil") to aesthetically hide the ongoing
'urban renewal' construction directly behind it... :-)
This is a photograph to delve into... time and space and culture...
"The building in the foreground is the Bavarian National Theater in Munich -- home of the Bavarian State Opera
"The hanging of large murals on the sides of buildings during renovation is quite common here."
Thank you Jeff... for "Edifice Rex"... more photographs are forthcoming for your architectural eye-candy...
to be continued...
&&&...
2. The Visual Dictionary of Buildings another splendid example of a DK Book: Dorling Kindersley, London
A large format book (12" x 10") exquisitely illustrated "instant access" = totally Student-Friendly Visual History of Monumental Buildings throughout the ages, labelled with thousands of clearly marked architectural terms. Each page has a one paragraph introductory text and the rest of the book is hundreds of excellent educational illustrations of building technology and craft. Packed into a slim 64 pages of no-nonsense Architecture "Eye Candy", this is a "Well-Built" Book...for any Classroom.
Architecture is literally Building with Geometry...
Here is a photograph contributed by my friend Jeff Chester,
a photographer, taken in Munich, Germany , summer 2010...
Obviously we have a strong vertical composition in this photograph:
huge columns, many stairs, the enormous building facade,the huge historical lamp-post like a monument and the complementary
smaller street lamp-post, etc. And even the focus of our attention, the humanly alive female walking up the central staircase...
is a vertical bright softness of life and color, in this otherwise grey dormant weighty overbearing edifice from a bygone era...
And there is a trick in this photograph, (there is always a trick in a Jeff Chester photograph :-) to the observant viewer, upon care-full examination through the majestic columned portico to the building facade background:
which is not really a building, but rather a painted mural ("Trompe L'Oeil") to aesthetically hide the ongoing
'urban renewal' construction directly behind it... :-)
This is a photograph to delve into... time and space and culture...
"The building in the foreground is the Bavarian National Theater in Munich -- home of the Bavarian State Opera
**http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/866-ZmxhZz0xJmw9ZW4-~Staatsoper~bso_aktuell~aktuelles.html**
The building with the trompe l'oeil is known as the Residenz -- home of the rulers of Bavaria for 500 years
**http://www.residenz-muenchen.de/englisch/residenc/index.htm**
"The hanging of large murals on the sides of buildings during renovation is quite common here."
Thank you Jeff... for "Edifice Rex"... more photographs are forthcoming for your architectural eye-candy...
to be continued...
&&&...
2. The Visual Dictionary of Buildings
another splendid example of a DK Book: Dorling Kindersley, London
A large format book (12" x 10") exquisitely illustrated "instant access" = totally Student-Friendly Visual History
of Monumental Buildings throughout the ages, labelled with thousands of clearly marked architectural terms.
Each page has a one paragraph introductory text and the rest of the book is hundreds of excellent educational illustrations of building technology and craft.
Packed into a slim 64 pages of no-nonsense Architecture "Eye Candy", this is a "Well-Built" Book...for any Classroom.